Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-07
FASHIONABLE OR OTHERJVESE

dresses.
In France standing collars with
turned-down points are worn only In
full dress.
CRUSHED roses and loops of tulle
make the popular trimming for Leg
horn flats.
HE colored pearls-rose, gray and
black, the latter for mourning-are
much the fashion.
BEADS about the size of pea.
made OF Swiss lapis lazuli, are favor
lite necklaces for young girls.
BRACELETS are never worn in pairs.
In fact, it is the fashion to manacle
only the right arm at present.
SAILOR hats are still worn on al
most all possible occasions, their
principal rivals being the broad Leg
horn hats.
A STRING of gold beads around the
throat is worn with low summer
dresses. 1t has most innocently in
fantile effect.
NEARLY all the slippers seen at the
watering-place dances this season
have rhinestone buckles about the
size OF silver half dollar.
ROUND hats drive bonnets entirely
from the field during the warm wealth
or. Even the light strings of the fash
1onable capotes are g. burden.
The Princess of Wales and other
English women OF fashion are wearing
Leghorn bonnets trimmed with large
flowers, peoples, artemisias, or roses.
SLIPPERS of black French kid have
embroidery of fine jet beads on the
toes, while those cut higher on the in
step have the large square Moliere
buckle and bow.
MILITARY styles will predominant in
the Jackets of next season. They will
DE adorned with Brandebourgs. frogs,
fOuragers and regular aiguilletes
tagged with metal.
THE small leather bag is never used
in France. In it's place our grand
mothers soft bag, made of some odd
bit OF rare silken tissue or old
stamped velvet, with ribbon to hang
it on the arm, is always carried.
ENAMELLED flower brooches remain
the favOrite choice for summer Jewell
ry, and new flowers are being con-
stantly added to the list, such as
thistles, edelweiss, astors, corn-fow-
ers, carnations, eglantine, and arbu-
tus.
CREAM-WHTTE felt hats, in sailor and
Spanish gypsy shapes, are just now
IN high vogue, and promise to be very
popular through the autumn season.
These mats are in high fashion at
many of the fashionable resorts
abroad.
SMALL, short curls are again worn
on the back hair, sometimes with
coil Or Psyche knot, and again form
ing all the back Of the couture. Nets
of beads and of silver or gilt cord for
holding the back hair are worn by
Parlsiennes.
Hat pins and the heavy headed
shell hair pins. thrust in the hair be-
mind bonnet to hold it in it's place,
grow daily more expensive and or
nate. Some OF these have heavy
pear shaped gold heads, in which are
set tiny cat's-eyes.
GREEN leather is now a. caprice for
bags, belts, card cases, and porte
monnaies, and for the large, soft wal
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notes. The new leather is a light
green tint, and is in raised designs like
those OF repousse silver.
Low shoes are very generally worn
this season; they have rounded, not
pointed toes, are laced across the in
step, and have medium high heels.
Dull kid uppers, with patent leath-
or foxing, or, at least, tips Of
patent leather, are most used.
ALMOST all cOrsages worn out of
doors now are open in some way,
over chemisette of colored silk, a
Breton vest of silk-embroidered
cloth, or g. plastron fat for g. day,
and shirred and transparent for
evening. But high, close corsages will
rule this fall.
The newest gauze fans are span
gled-not painted-the spangles being
of red tinsel, yellow, silver, or gray,
and dotting the sticks as we'll as the
gauze. Light sandal wood and the
dark, fragrant violet sticks are used
for gauzes OF various colors, and are
very delicately carved.
TRAVELLING dresses for August are
almost exclusively made of gray al
paca, with the vest of white pique,
and with these soft felt mans hat
of cafe au lait shade, with long veil
Of delicate blue wound round the
throat. A changesble silken loose
cloak completes the outfit.
A SWEET little princess bonnet is
made of pink silk Datiste, wrought
with Persian embroideries in scat
tered designs, and trimmed with high
montures of pink crepe hollyhock,
mingled with tender green foliage.
Another bonnet of pale violet lisse is
trimmed with milk-white roses and
pale blue forget-me-nots.
IT is yet too early to mention de-
cidedly what colors will prevail the
coming season, though there are not
wanting certain indications by which
it may be safely predicted that new
terra Gotta, golden bronze, dark Ro-
man red, and many shades of gray
will be the leading colors, each of
these more beautiful in tint than ever
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